It is said that
'work is worship', and your place of worship, that means your office, should
be ideal suiting to the essential needs and requirements. If you are looking
for spaces to establish an office then you will have to consider various
points in mind before making the final decisions.
Office spaces can be found at these places:
Your Requirements
First decide which style of office you want:
- Whether you want modern style office or period style.
- Is one floor sufficient for the purpose? If not, how many floors
would satisfy your need. You can use the basement according to your
requirements. You can use it for proper office use or as a store.
- Do your office need a self contained building?
- Selection of air-conditioning is optional. Now-a-days most of the
offices are air-conditioned.
- Do you want your office to look prestigious, utilitarian, or perhaps
funky?
- Do you want to have a commissionaire?
Choosing Space for Office
While selecting spaces for offices you must take care of some points, like
location of the site, parking space, etc. If you follow these suggestions
you will be relieved from the burden of choosing ideal office site.
- Accessibility: Your office should be easily accessible by
the roads so that the employees and clients don't have any problem in
commuting. If an office is located at very far-off places where the
means of approaching are less and it takes long time then it would
decrease the efficiency of employees and ultimately the productivity of
the office. Your office should also be en-route by buses, auto, etc.
- Parking Space: Whether you are opening office as a separate
unit or in an IT park the parking area is always one of the most
important points to give proper attention. The strength of your office
staffs decides the space required for parking. Also the relative number
of four-wheelers and two-wheelers decide the nature of parking. If the
number of staffs coming from two-wheelers are more in number then the
structure of parking space would be different.
- Surrounding Environment of Office: The strategic location of
office decides the fate of your company or business. Assume what would
happen if a vegetable vendor establish his shop far from the market,
where the population is meager. His business would be totally in loss.
So the location is a very important factor for running your business, be
it a vendor or your office. Your office must be located within a
business area or similar environments. If you are opening the office for
your headquarter then it must be situated in the business parks or
business arcades.
Serviced Versus Conventional
If you want to start your office operation at the quickest then it will be
better to choose a serviced office than a conventional one. A serviced
office already have the basic infrastructure to start the operation soon.
Here are given some points to compare the advantages and disadvantages of
both type of offices.
- Usually serviced offices are provided for short term leases than the
conventional offices.
- These offices are flexible and immediately ready to do business in,
while the conventional ones take time to start the operation.
- The serviced offices have plenty of support services, while the
conventional offices have almost no additional services.
- The serviced offices are more expensive than the conventional one.